General Resources |
- AskERIC Lesson Plans:
Social Studies
- Avalon Project by Yale Law School
(warning: "The Avalon Project will no doubt contain controversial
documents. Their inclusion does not indicate endorsement of their contents nor
sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means employed by their authors. They are
included for balance and because in some cases they are by our definition a supporting
document." ... "The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to
the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not
intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to
supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text." ... Documents: pre-18th century, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century)
- Carnegie
Mellon: the English Server - Government, Law and Society ("materials in
government, law, and their social implications")
- University of Penna : Books On-line (books on-line, news, features, archives, etc.)
- CEC
- Columbia Education Center's Mini Lessons (K-12 plans & activities)
- EducationWorld - Lesson Plan Center
(searcher and links ... check left margin for your subject area)
- EducationWorld - History
(searcher and links ... check bottom of pages for more links)
- History/Social Studies Web Site (resources for Teachers and Parents)
- LessonPlansPage (slow loading but lots of
lesson plans, open each in new window)
- iEARN ("The International
Education and Resource Network enables young people to undertake projects designed to make
a meaningful contribution to the health and welfare of the planet and its people" ...
curriculum applications)
- McREL - Educator Resources (excellent site ... "links to
resources teachers can use in the classroom, as well as reports, articles, and directories
that will help improve learning for all")
- Historical Text
Archives (high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects.)
- OFCN's Academy Curricular
Exchange Social Studies Lessons: Grades K-5
- OFCN's Academy Curricular
Exchange Social Studies Lessons: Grades 6-8
- OFCN's Academy Curricular
Exchange Social Studies Lessons: Grades 9-12
- Social
Studies School Service (free catalogs, links, lesson plans, etc.)
- Spartacus Educational - Historical
Encyclopedia ("The USA 1840-1960; The Medieval World; Encyclopedia of British;
History: 1700-1900; Encyclopedia of the First World War; Slavery: 1750-1870;
Railways:1780-1900; Investigating the Vietnam War; The Emancipation of Women;
Parliamentary Reform; The Textile Industry; The Trade Union Movement; Religion and
Society")
- Teachnet.Com: Lesson Ideas
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Sociology
Anthropology & Culture
also see Mythology & Fairy Tales |
- American
Folk: people, folklore, and popular culture (Architecture; Characters and Creatures;
Festivals and Events; Folk Groups; Folk Music and Dance; Folk Religion and Beliefs; Folk
and Alternative Medicine; Folk and Popular Arts; Folklore; Food and Foodways; Games and
Pastimes; Holidays; Just Plain Weird; Popular Culture and Kitsch; Storytelling and
Narrative; Travel Tourism and Region)
- Archaeology on the Net (7500+ links: Maps and
Atlases, Museums, Anthropology, Cultural Heritage Protection, Ethnoarchaeology,
Linguistics )
- Ask Asia (lesson plans and
information about Asian culture)
- Carnegie Mellon: Books On-line (7,000+
books on-line ... most subject areas ... also literature in French, German and Spanish)
- Carnegie
Mellon: the English Server - Government, Law and Society ("materials in
government, law, and their social implications")
- Civilizations and Urbanism in the Basin of
Mexico
- Collapse - Why do civilizations fall?
by Annenberg/CPB Exhibits ("Join us as we explore the collapse of four ancient
civilizations. You'll learn what happens when a society collapses and how archaeologists
find and interpret evidence. You can visit the Maya city of Copán and search for clues to
its collapse. You can also try your hand at "garbage-ology" and study what trash
can tell us about a society.")
- Dennis Boals' Archaeology / Anthropology
(links for teachers)
- Education Index: Anthropology (links)
- History/Social Studies Web Site for
K-12 Teachers: (Here are some useful social studies-related websites courtesy of Warren Solomon, Social Studies Consultant, State of Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education)
- INCORE - Initiative on
Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity ("information about internet resources on
conflict and ethnicity specific to particular countries and regions")
- Information Resources in Primatology
(about primates, links, teaching resources, etc.)
- Library of Congress: Country Studies/Area
Handbooks Program ("Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign
country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security
systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the
ways they are shaped by cultural factors.")
- about.com: Social Work (searcher &
lots of links)
- Multicultural Book Review
Homepage (list of reviewed books that are "particularly strong choice for
educators to use in their classrooms" .. multicultural links)
- National
Endowment for the Humanities (links to history, literature, philosophy and other
humanities)
- National Humanities Center's
TeacherServe: (An interacitve curriculum enrichment service for teachers)
- Oz's Kingdom: Other Subjects
(math, science, psychology, economics, philosophy ... lots of links, teacher resources,
etc.)
- Oz's Kingdom: Non-Western
Cultures (lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Oz's Kingdom: Western
Civilization (history and impact of Europe ... lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Smithsonian Institute:
Archaeology & Anthropology
- U of Pennsylvania: World Cultures:
Ancient and Modern - Bodies
of Cultures - A World Tour of Body Modification ("people around the world have
been piercing, tattooing, and painting their bodies .. dating as far back as the 9th
century BC ... what it means is personal and cultural")
- U of Pennsylvania: World Cultures:
Ancient and Modern - Sailing
the Ocean Without Map or Compass ("The navigation system used in the central
Caroline Islands makes no use of either compasses or charts, but relies on stars and on
memorizing huge amounts of information. This provides a fascinating picture of how one
culture handles knowledge.")
- WashingtonPost.com:
The Myth of the Melting Pot: America's Racial and Ethnic Divides (3rd article, links
to 1st & 2nd, links)
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Diversity, Ethnicity, Race & Religion |
- African-Americans in Army
History @ U.S. Army Center of Military History
- AFRO-American Almanac (an on-line presentation of the African in America with a historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution. Various media are used for information presentation)
- Black
Facts Online ("searchable database: Look up Black History Facts for every
day of the year; Perform full text searches for Black History Facts; Find out what
happened in Black History today; Find out what famous Black people were born on your
birthday; Help you research papers and articles; Help educate yourself and your children
on Black History; Black Facts is available 24 hours a day and is absolutely FREE!")
- Carnegie Mellon: Books On-line (7,000+
books on-line ... downloadable catalog)
- Carnegie
Mellon: the English Server - Government, Law and Society ("materials in
government, law, and their social implications")
- Carnegie
Mellon: the English Server - Race ("materials on race and ethnicity in the
U.S")
- Hanover College: Texts and Documents - The
United States (links for history, literature, philosophy, theology, politics, science
& web sites for16th & 17th Centuries, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century)
- INCORE - Initiative on
Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity ("information about internet resources on
conflict and ethnicity specific to particular countries and regions")
- Internet
Public Library: Online Texts Collection - Religion ("contains over 7700
titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Subject Classification")
- Library of Congress: California
Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties ("Broad topics: emigration
and immigration, ethnicity, music ... Multiformat ethnographic field collection that
includes sound recordings, still photos, drawings and written documents from a variety of
European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern
California.")
- Library of Congress: Hispano Music
& Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection (146 audio
recordings and 218 pages of print materials document religious and secular music of
Spanish-speaking residents of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado in 1940. Included
in the collection are recordings of alabados (hymns), folk drama, wedding songs, and dance
tunes. ... topics: ethnicity, music, religion")
- Mormon History Resources
- National Humanities Center's
TeacherServe: (an interactive curriculum enrichment service for teachers)
- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center - Africans in America (history, pictures, video, links)
- New Advent (many links to sites about Catholicism ...
includes Catholic Encyclopedia)
- Oz's Kingdom: Religions (lots
of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Oz's Kingdom: African
Americans (lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Oz's Kingdom: Meso & Latin
America (lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Spartacus Educational - Historical
Encyclopedia ("The USA 1840-1960; The Medieval World; Encyclopedia of British;
History: 1700-1900; Encyclopedia of the First World War; Slavery: 1750-1870;
Railways:1780-1900; Investigating the Vietnam War; The Emancipation of Women;
Parliamentary Reform; The Textile Industry; The Trade Union Movement; Religion and
Society")
- U Michigan: Making of America ("MOA is a
digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period
through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of
education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
The collection contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th
century imprints.")
- WashingtonPost.com:
The Myth of the Melting Pot: America's Racial and Ethnic Divides (3rd article, links
to 1st & 2nd, links)
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Women's Issues |
- African-American
Women @ Duke U ("On-line archival collections featuring scanned pages and texts
of the writings of African-American women. Includes the memoirs of Elizabeth Johnson
Harris (1867-1942), an 1857 letter from Vilet Lester, a slave on a North Carolina
plantation, and several letters from Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson, slaves on the
estate of David Campbell, a governor of Virginia.")
- American Women's History @
Middle Tennessee State U ("citations to print and Internet reference sources ..
selected large primary source collections .. provides information about the tools
researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary
sources")
- Civil War Women - Primary Sources on
the Internet @ Duke U ("Diaries, Letters, Documents; Photographs and
Prints & General Civil War Pages ... manuscript collections which document
women's experiences in the
Civil War ... links to primary sources on the Internet that are directly related to women
and the Civil War")
- Educated Women
in Ancient Society (Essays on women's education, women in religions, female poets, and Greek women philosophers)
- Feminist
Majority Foundation Online (tons of resources and links)
- Gale Celebrates Women's History
(resource center)
- Godey's Lady's Book Online ("one
of the most popular lady's books of the 19th century ... Each issue contained poetry,
beautiful engraving and articles by some of the most well known authors in America")
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project by Paul
Halsall @ Forham University ("The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of
public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly [without advertising
or excessive layout] for educational use" ... Ancient History Sourcebook |
Medieval Sourcebook | Modern History Sourcebook | Byzantine Studies Page ... African | East Asian | Indian | Islamic | Jewish | Women's | Global | Science | Medieval Studies Course | Modern History Course
| Chinese Studies Page | Medieval Webguide)
- Women's History (tons of links)
- Women's Issues (tons of links)
- Oz's Kingdom: Women (lots of
links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Spartacus Educational - Historical
Encyclopedia ("The USA 1840-1960; The Medieval World; Encyclopedia of British;
History: 1700-1900; Encyclopedia of the First World War; Slavery: 1750-1870;
Railways:1780-1900; Investigating the Vietnam War; The Emancipation of Women;
Parliamentary Reform; The Textile Industry; The Trade Union Movement; Religion and
Society")
- Vandergrift's Special Interest Page
("This website is a means of sharing ideas and information with all
those interested in literature for children and young adults.")
- Women and Social Movements in the
United States, 1830-1930 ("a rich collection of primary documents ... organized
around editorial projects completed by undergraduate and graduate students at the State
University of New York at Binghamton. Each project poses a question and provides 15-20
documents that address the question")
- Women's
Internation Center ("Words of Wisdom from women; History of women through art;
Heroines; History of women in America; Women's Resources on the Net; Reaching around
the world for women; Birthdates and brief biographies: Do you share a birthdate with
destiny?")
|
Biographies |
- Celebration
of Women Writers (The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history.)
- Distinguished Women of Past and Present
("biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different ways. There
are writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders,
artists, entertainers, and others. Some were alive hundreds of years ago and some are
living today. ")
- First Ladies @ IDEA Network
("Presidential spouses have often played a major role in American history. In some
situations, the good works of first ladies live on after their husbands have left the
public stage. This information resource attempts to combine a focus on their
"official" duties while in office with their activities after. ")
- Famous Women (National Women's Hall of Fame)
- 4000 Years of Women in Science
(pictures, bios, links ... "4,000 years of women in science! ... Women are, and
always have been, scientists ... site lists over 125 names from our scientific and
technical past. They are all women!")
- Gale Celebrates Women's History (free resources site)
- Notable
Women Ancestors (tons of info on famous and not-so-famous American women)
- Women Artists in History ("to
showcase the work of women artists down through the centuries" ... from Medieval to
20th Century)
- Women Nobel Prize Laureates by The Nobel
Prize Internet Archive ("In 1903, only two years after the Nobel Foundation was
established, a Nobel Prize was awarded to a woman, Marie Curie, for the first time. Women
have been winning Nobel Prizes ever since. In fact, one woman, Bertha von Suttner was
influential in convincing Alfred Nobel to set aside a Prize for peace. Women have won
Prizes in all categories with the exception of Economics")
- Women of NASA (bios, teaching tips,
women of the world, etc.")
|
Suffrage Movement |
- Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
@ Duke U ("on-line archival collection .. focus specifically on the radical origins
of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from radical
theoretical writings to humourous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots
group.")
- National
Women's History Project (classroom tips, links ... "non-profit corporation ..
maintains the clearinghouse for U.S. women's history information")
- Votes for Women: 1850-1920 @
Library of Congress ("extensive and varied resources related to the campaign for
woman suffrage in the United States ... 38 pictures [includind] portraits of many
individuals ... photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an
anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons commenting on the movement--all evoking the
visible and visual way in which the debate over women's suffrage was carried out")
- Women in Politics (Rutgers' Eagleton Institute of Politics project to document female political statistics)
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Economics |
- Avalon Project by Yale Law School
(warning: "The Avalon Project will no doubt contain controversial
documents. Their inclusion does not indicate endorsement of their contents nor
sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means employed by their authors. They are
included for balance and because in some cases they are by our definition a supporting
document." ... "The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to
the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not
intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to
supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text." ... Documents: pre-18th century, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century)
- Biz/ed ( a web site for students and educators in business studies, economics, accounting, leisure, sport & recreation and travel & tourism)
- Carnegie Mellon: Books On-line (7,000+
books on-line ... downloadable catalog)
- Carnegie
Mellon: the English Server - Marx and Engels ("a collection of writings in
economic and social theory")
- CIA: World Factbook
(countries of the world: maps and lots of info about their Geography, People, Government,
Economy, Communications, Transportation, Military, Transnational Issues)
- Comparative Chronology of
Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day (excellent timeline with brief
chronologies)
- Drexel U: Essential
Principles of Economics: A Hypermedia Text (economic lecture notes that almost form a
complete textbook)
- EconomicExpert.com (Extensive guide of economics-related information, articles and analysis on the world's economies, industry status and global data.)
- EducationWorld - Social
Studies (searcher and links)
- EduStock ("an educational web page
designed to teach .. what the stock market is, and how it can work for them .. tutorials
on the stock market and how to pick good stocks .. provides information on a select group
of companies to help you start your research into what stock is going to make your fortune")
- Inflation Calculator (enter amount of money,
starting and ending dates and it will calculate the money's inflated worth, other links)
- Investor Home: Interactive Tools and
Calculators (links for calculators for: Investing Tools | Tax Calculators | Retirement
Calculators | Options | Investment Tests | Other Calculators | Nonfinancial Tools)
- Investor Home (links for tons of investment
information, including history, stock market, charities, etc.)
- INVESTools (You can tailor your Investools experience to match your own learning style, making it possible to gain the knowledge, tools and support to making smarter investment decisions.)
- InvestorWords
("the most comprehensive financial glossary you'll find anywhere, online or off ..
over 5,000 definitions and 15,000 links between related terms")
- Library of Congress: Country Studies/Area
Handbooks Program ("Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign
country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security
systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the
ways they are shaped by cultural factors.")
- Marietta College: Classroom
Expernomics ("a newsletter dedicated to the use of economic experiments as a
teaching tool for the classroom" ... downloadable files in PDF format)
- McMaster
University Archive for the History of Economic Thought ("an attempt to gather all
material for the study of the history of economics at one site. This includes both primary
texts, studies of those texts and of their authors")
- MISD: Lessons and Project - Your First
Paycheck ("YOUR FIRST PAYCHECK HAS FINALLY ARRIVED! DECISIONS...DECISIONS...
DECISIONS... This economics lesson ask students to decide how they will spend their
money.")
- MISD: Lessons and Project -
Creating a stock portfolio ("designed to help high school economics students
learn more about the stock market")
- United Nations:
InfoNation ("an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and
compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United
Nations")
- United
States Information Agency: Hypertext on American History from the colonial period until
Modern Times (excellent site: outlines of American History, Economy, Government, and
Literature; Documents; Essays; Biographies; and Presidents)
- US
Treasury Department: Learning Vault ("all about the history of the Department,
its role in the Federal government, and its mission to serve you" .. including U.S.
Coins, Paper Currency, Savings Bonds, Budget and Debt, Tax System)
- U
of Cal at Berkeley: Macro-Economics (lecture notes, problems, tests and diagrams)
- U
of Nebraska: EcEdWeb ("teaching resources for economics teachers .. plus links to
particularly useful web sites for economics information and data for teachers and
students")
- Yale Law School: Avalon Project
("documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy
and Government ... will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not
indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means
employed by their authors" .. Pre-18th
Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century)
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Government, Foreign Policy, Politics & Voting |
- About.com: US Politics (tons of links)
- About.com: US Gov Info / Resources (tons of links)
- About.com: Geography
- Atlopedia Online ("full color physical
and political maps as well as
key facts and statistics on countries of the world")
- AskAsia
("an exciting, informative on-line source K-12 Asian and Asian American studies ...
offers easy, 24-hour access to high-quality, classroom-tested resources and cultural
information, engaging games and activities, and links to relevant people, places, and
institutions")
- Avalon Project by Yale Law School
(warning: "The Avalon Project will no doubt contain controversial
documents. Their inclusion does not indicate endorsement of their contents nor
sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means employed by their authors. They are
included for balance and because in some cases they are by our definition a supporting
document." ... "The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to
the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not
intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to
supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text." ... Documents: pre-18th century, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century)
- Carnegie Mellon: Books On-line (7,000+
books on-line ... downloadable catalog)
- Carnegie
Mellon: the English Server - Government, Law and Society ("materials in
government, law, and their social implications")
- Center
for Civic Education (free material, lesson plans, civics info, curriculum, etc.)
- CIA: Chiefs of State and
Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
- CIA World Factbook
("a comprehensive resource of facts and statistics on more than 250 countries and
other entities.")
- Compton's 3D Atlas Online (maps, flags,
teacher resources, information, views from space, statistics, climate, culture, geography,
etc.)
- DNC - Democratic National Committee
- DSA - Democratic Socialists of America
- E-Conflict World Encyclopedia ("Countries with their Anthems, Flags, Maps, History, Weather,
Geography, Government and Economic Information.")
- Encyclopaedia of the Orient (North Africa and
Near East --- "covers all countries and cultures between Mauritania in the west and
Iran in the east, Turkey in the north and Sudan in south ... Everything is free")
- Grolier's: Encyclopedia Americana:
The American Presidency (excellent set of resources on presidents, the presidency,
politics, Constitution, etc.)
- Electronic Embassy
(" a resource for and of the Washington, DC foreign embassy community .. information
on all of the Foreign Embassies")
- EmbassyWeb
("searcheable diplomacy database with over 50,000 addresses, phone numbers and email
addresses of diplomatic posts worldwide. ... turns its spotlight onto web sites maintained
by foreign representations all over the world")
- Governments
on the Web (table of contents ...
"Comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web:
parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public
broadcasting corporations, central banks, multi-national organisations etc. Includes also
political parties ... Contains more than 13000 entries from 220 countries and
territories")
- History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12
Teachers: Government (tons of links)
- Internet
Public Library: Online Texts Collection - Social Sciences ("contains over
7700 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Subject
Classification")
- Libertarian
Party
- Library of Congress: Country Studies
(wealth of information: geography, maps, charts, history, economy, etc)
- MISD: Lessons and Project - Election '96 ("This lesson was designed for the 1996 Presidential Election, but could be modified
for use with any election.")
- Natural
Law Party
- Oz's Kingdom: US Government
(lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Oz's Kingdom: Country
Information (lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- PBS: POV - Dissect an Ad (how to view
campaign ads, teacher tool kit, links, video, etc.)
- Project
Vote Smart: tracking the performance of over 13,000 political leaders - president,
congress, governors, state legislators ("wealth of facts on candidates &
elected officials, including biographies, addresses, issue positions, voting records,
campaign finances, and evaluations by special interests")
- Reform
Party
- RNC -
Republican National Committee
- SIPRI Military Expenditure
Country Graphs (information . and . trends in military expenditure throughout the
world .. comparisons and evaluations of military expenditure and of the economic burden of
such expenditure," graphs and links)
- United
Nations (General Information, Peace and Security, Economic
and Social Development, Civil Society/Business,
International Law, Human Rights, Databases,
Humanitarian Affairs, UN News, UN Around the World, etc.)
- US State Department:
Background Notes (geographic, economic, almanac, etc., "information on geographic
entities and international organizations")
- US State Department: Regional Affairs
(world news, background info, travel links, etc.)
- United
States House of Representatives
- United
States Senate
- US Taxpayers Party
- US Census Burreau: Voting
and Registration (1964-present, "Information on reported voting and registration
by various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics .. Detailed information from
recent surveys and historical trends in selected areas is listed below. Projections of the
voting-age population by age, race, Hispanic origin, and gender")
- US
Census Burreau
- U.S. Information Agency: ("the premier international web site for the US government, providing daily updates on current foreign policy information from all agencies of the US")
- Virtual
Library ("International
Affairs, Law, Regional Studies , etc.")
- White House (history,
tours, links, documents, news, etc.)
- WWW
Virtual Law Library: @ Indiana U (lots of information on all state
governments)
- Yale Law School: Avalon Project
("documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy
and Government ... will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not
indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means
employed by their authors" .. Pre-18th
Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century)
- Yale Law
School: Avalon Project: The Cuban Missile Crisis - Foreign Relations of the United States:
1961-1963 .. Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath (links, memoranda, editorials, people,
etc.)
- Your
Nation (excellent site ... choose a nation and compare it to others)
|
Law & Courts |
- About.com: Civil Liberties
(tons of links)
- About.com: Crime / Punishment (tons of
links)
- About.com: Human Rights (tons
of links)
- About.com: Law (tons of links)
- ACLU (National organization advocating individual rights, by litigating, legislating, and educating the public on a broad array of issues affecting individual)
- Avalon Project by Yale Law School
(warning: "The Avalon Project will no doubt contain controversial
documents. Their inclusion does not indicate endorsement of their contents nor
sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means employed by their authors. They are
included for balance and because in some cases they are by our definition a supporting
document." ... "The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to
the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not
intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to
supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text." ... Documents: pre-18th century, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century)
- Carnegie
Mellon: the English Server - Government, Law and Society ("materials in
government, law, and their social implications")
- Carnegie Mellon: Books On-line (7,000+
books on-line ... downloadable catalog)
- Constitution of the
United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation - Annotations of Cases Decided by
the Supreme Court of the United States @ U.S. Government Printing Office (downloadable
files)
- Constitution of the
United States @ National Archives and Records Administration
- Cornell Law School's Legal Information
Institute (collection of recent
and historic Supreme
Court decisions, its hypertext versions of the full U.S. Code, U.S.
Constitution, Code of Federal Regulations,
Federal Rules of Evidence
and much more)
- Cornel
Law School (index of
"law about" ... and ... index of "law about"
larger categories)
- Emery Law Library: Electronic
Reference Desk
- Emory Law School: The Federalist
("On September 17, 1787, the Philadelphia Convention proposed a new Constitution.
Almost immediately, opponents of the Constitution filled the New York newspapers with
editorials. ... Alexander Hamilton contacted Madison and Jay and proposed that they
compose a series of essays that clearly articulated the arguments for the Constitution.
Hamilton felt this was epecially important because states were electing members to
conventions which would decide whether to ratify the new Constitution.")
- FindLaw
("award winning World Wide Web site devoted to legal research and the legal
community")
- flite: Federal Legal Information Through
Electronics ("Search and View Full Text of Supreme Court Decisions Issued between
1937 and 1975 ... Contains 7,407 Decisions from volumes 300 through 422 of US
Reports")
- Grolier's: Encyclopedia Americana:
The American Presidency (excellent set of resources on presidents, the presidency,
politics, Constitution, etc.)
- History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12
Teachers: Government (tons of links)
- Internet Law Library by LegalGuru.com
(execellent site for researching all kinds of laws)
- James Madison: His Legacy ("This site
was developed to assist in teaching the early political development of the United States
at James Madison University ... the life of James Madison provides a unique unifying
perspective on the early development of the critical institutions and practices of the
government of the United States ... excess of three hundred documents, mostly primary
sources. Madison was a politician at a time when that term was not an epithet, and
he was also a scholar whose careful reading and preparation set him apart ... site is
organized in a roughly chronological manner.
- LegalGuru.com
(great source of material: "Legal Questions, Answers and Research from
Attorneys" ... links, tools, etc.)
- NARA's America's Historical Documents
- NARA's Watergate and the
Constitution @ National Archives and Records Administration ("A 1974 memorandum
from the Watergate Special Prosecution Force weighs the pros and cons of seeking an
indictment against former President Richard Nixon.")
- Nolo.com
(excellent legal site ... "America's leading source of self-help legal
information." ... legal
encyclopedia, legal dictionary,
topical legal index, legal research center, consumer & business calculators,
etc.)
- Office
of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention ("site is designed to provide
information and resources on both general areas of interest about juvenile justice and
delinquency including conferences, funding opportunities, and new publications and the
comprehensive strategy as a framework for communities to combat youth crime")
- Oyez,
Oyez, Oyez (From Wikipedia)
- Oz's Kingdom: US Government
(lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Supreme
Court @ Washingtonpost.com (The Docket, 1997-98 Term, 1996-97 Term, History, Quiz,
Links & Resources)
- Supreme Court Collection @ Legal
Information Institute: Cornell Law School ("Supreme Court opinions .. issued since
May of 1990. In addition, our collection of 610 of the most important historical decisions
of the Court is available .. with reduced functionality ... gallery of the current justices,
including pictures, biographies, and lists of decisions by the current members of the
Court ... a gallery of former
justices, including biographies of all former members of the Court the Supreme ...
Court's rules ... information about the court's organization, authority, and jurisdiction
... glossary of terms for those who don't speak legalese" )
- Virtual
Library ("International
Affairs, Law, Regional Studies , etc.")
- WWW Virtual Law Library @ Indiana U (lots of
information about laws and governemnt)
- Yale Law School: Avalon Project
("documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy
and Government ... will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not
indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means
employed by their authors" .. Pre-18th
Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century)
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- American Psychological Association:
Curriculum Resources (unit plans; lessons; activities)
- Carnegie Mellon: Books On-line (7,000+
books on-line ... downloadable catalog)
- Eric Chudler: Neuroscience
Education (TONs of links)
- Eric Chudler: Neuroscience for
Kids ("learn more about the nervous system .. activities and experiments on ..
brain and spinal cord")
- Great Ideas in Personality by Dr Scott
Acton @ NWU ("How do people tend to think, feel, and behave--and what causes these
tendencies? These are the questions that occupy personality theorists and researchers.
This website deals with scientific research
programs in personality. They are offered as candidates for the title "great
ideas"; whether they are indeed great remains an open question.")
- Healthy Place .com (some useful online psychological screening tests, online psychological tests, links)
- Internet
Public Library: Online Texts Collection -Psychology ("contains over 7700 titles that can be browsed by author, by title,
or by Dewey Subject Classification")
- Jung,
Analytical Psychology and Culture (original articles, abstracts, glossary, dictionary,
Jungian training & ethics, links, etc.)
- Keirsey
Temperament and Character Web Site (Keirsey Temperament Sorter II
interactive test .. lots of personality resources)
- Sigmund Freud and the Freud
Archives ("collection of links points to Internet resources related to Sigmund
Freud and his works. Included in this collection are libraries, museums, and biographical
materials")
- Hanover College: Psychological Tutorials
and Demonstrations (links)
- Oz's Kingdom: Other Subjects
(math, science, psychology, economics, philosophy ... lots of links, teacher resources,
etc.)
- Personality Page (take the Personality Questionnaire to discover your personality type and improve self-understanding-a website about Psychological Type, based primarily upon the works of Carl G. Jung, pioneer psychologist, and of Isabel Briggs Myers, creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) )
- Personality Project (The) (A guide to the academic research literature in personality and personality theory. Meant for those with a serious interest in current personality theory.)
- Personality Theories by Dr
George Boeree @ NWU ("This is an electronic textbook ("e-text") created for
undergraduate and graduate courses in Personality Theories." ... Introduction, Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Erik Erikson, Carl Jung, Otto Rank, Alfred Adler, Karen Horney, Albert Ellis, Erich Fromm, B. F. Skinner, Hans Eysenck and others, Albert Bandura, Gordon Allport, George Kelly, Snygg and Combs, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Ludwig Binswanger, Medard Boss, Viktor Frankl, Rollo May, Jean Piaget, Sociobiology, and The Ultimate Theory of Personality)
- Psych
Web (excellent site that "contains lots of psychology-related information for
students and teachers of psychology" ... links by topic)
- 2h.com
(links to IQ Tests, Personality Tests and Entrepreneurial Tests)
- U Michigan: Making of America ("MOA is a
digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period
through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of
education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
The collection contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th
century imprints.")
- Virginia Tech:
Exploring Prejudice in Young Adult Literature through Drama and Role Play ("Young
adult literature provides rich literary material for exploring issues and dilemmas of the
human experience as perceived by the young. The dramatization of cultural pluralism is one
of the major roles this literature can play. The adolescent years are timely years for
dealing with issues of discrimination, prejudice, and cultural differences since
adolescents often perceive themselves as a 'culture' apart from the mainstream.")
- Yahoo's Psychology Links
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Indians / Native Americans |
- American Indian Tribes and Cultures (an indexed list of links to sites on specific American Indian tribes and cultures)
- Aztecs & Searching for Cortez ("short
lessons about the History of Central America")
- ESU 7's Multicultural
Education Resources (Emporia State University Resource Center)
- Hanksville
(links to Native American resources on the internet)
- History/Social Studies Web Site for
K-12 Teachers: (Native American resources)
- History
of the Cherokee (website is designed and maintained by Ken Martin, a Cherokee of mixed-blood and a tribal member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma)
- List of Native American Indian Tribes and Languages (Native Languages of the Americas)
- Oz's Kingdom: Native
Americans (lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Plains Indian Health (Traditional Healing and Western Medicine)
- ProTeacher Directory (Lessons for grades 4-6, Ancient Americas)
- The Inuit (land, travel, houses, food, work, tools, etc.)
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Flags |
- Betsy Ross Homepage (Take a tour of Betsy Ross' House. And what do the red, white, and blue mean?)
- FOTW (Flags of the World, the largest site devoted to vexillology (the study of flags).
- International Maritime Signal Flags
- Oz's Kingdom: 50 States (lots of
links, flags, maps, monuments, teacher resources, etc.)
- Oz's Kingdom: Maps,
Flags, Timelines (extensive links ... Geography, Money, Holidays, Calendars)
- U Oklahoma: Flags (flags of US, states,
possessions, etc.)
- World Flag Database (The first stop for accurate flags of the world, including national flags, ensigns, military flags and head-of-state flags, with beautiful illustrations.)
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Today in History |
- Oz's Kingdom: Maps,
Flags, Timelines (extensive links ... Geography, Money, Holidays, Calendars)
- Mother of All Today In
History Sites (no frames ... "surf through many of the TODAY IN HISTORY sites
from all over the Internet")
- ANYDAY Today-in-History (historic events,
births, deaths, etc.)
- Daily Almanac (The Daily Almanac features Today in History, Today's Birthdays, and Word of the Day.)
- dMarie Time Capsule (enter date from 1900 to
1997 ... get list of songs, President, headlines, costs of houses, gas, bread, etc.)
- FamousBirthdays.com (who else has your
birthday?, send a birthday card, birthday jokes and quotes, etc.)
- 440 International: Those Were the Days
(events that happened in history on this day ... or any day in the archives)
- History Channel: This Day in History
(historic events, births, top songs, etc.)
- History Net: Today in History
(today-only: birthdays, almanac, horoscope, etc. & picture of the day)
- LIFE Online: This Day in LIFE
(archives of Life magazine & events in history)
- Literary
Calendar (an almanac of literary information, organized by date)
- On this Day (New
York Times archives)
- This Day in Movie History (births, deaths,
marriages of people involved in film history)
- This
Day in Music History (... archives)
- This Date in Baseball (... archives)
- Today
in History ("What happened on this date in history. What famous people are having
a birthdays today?")
- Today in History @ Library of
Congress (American history ... archives)
- Yahoo! This Day in History (history
events brought to you from The History Channel
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